Kelvin Lim Hock Hin

Kelvin Lim Hock Hin (林福兴 Lín Fúxīng; born 1968), a Singaporean citizen, is a convicted sex offender who committed various sexual offences against young boys between 1988 and 1996.

Lim Hock Hin, also known as Kelvin Lim, was born in Singapore in 1968.

He had one sister.

Lim, who was unrepresented, was prosecuted by Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Ferlin Jayatissa for these ten counts, and the trial was presided by veteran High Court judge T. S. Sinnathuray, who was best known for sentencing infamous child killer Adrian Lim to death for murdering two children at Toa Payoh in 1981, as well as sentencing British spree killer John Martin Scripps to death for killing a South African tourist in 1995.

In addition to his plea of guilt to the first ten charges, Lim agreed to have the remaining 30 charges taken into consideration during sentencing.

None of the five victims were publicly named to protect their identities.

Between June and November 1987, Lim had sexually abused four boys, aged between nine and 15, and court documents showed that Lim had enticed the boys into having sex with him by offering them free tuition and toys.

After his arrest, Lim was tried in a district court for nine counts of unnatural sex, which included carnal intercourse with a minor.

According to the mitigation plea of Lim's former lawyer in 1988, Lim was sodomized by a neighbour at age 14, which led to Lim supposedly manifesting some form of sexual interest towards young boys and led to his first offences in 1987.

It was also said that Lim came from a dysfunctional family background during his childhood years.

The district judge Tan Seck Sam sentenced Lim, then 20 years old, to 15 months in prison after Lim pleaded guilty to three out of nine charges (the remaining six were taken into consideration during sentencing) on 7 October 1988.

About three years after his release from his first prison sentence, Kelvin Lim once again returned to court for four counts of sexually abusing a nine-year-old boy whom he tutored for free.

Lim was reported to have used the same modus operandi of enticing the boy to have sex with him in return for free toys and tuition, resulting in his sexual abuse of the boy between July 1992 and June 1993 prior to his arrest.

In September 1993, after his conviction for two out of the four unnatural sex charges (which Lim also pleaded guilty to), 25-year-old Lim was sentenced to 32 months of imprisonment, consisting of two consecutive jail terms of 16 months for each count he was convicted for.

He also built a good relationship with the boys' father, a carpenter who lost his wife to cancer in 1994.

Lim was released on 19 June 1995 on parole for good behavior.

Less than four months after his release from his second prison sentence, Kelvin Lim once again re-offended.

This time, Lim targeted five boys aged between nine and 13, and his crime spree lasted from October 1995 to October 1996.

In September 1995, three months after his release, Lim met his first two victims, a pair of brothers aged ten and 12 respectively, at a game arcade in Queenstown Shopping Centre.

He befriended them and the boys quickly became close to him.

Prior to his latest arrest in 1996, Lim was jailed twice in 1988 and 1993 respectively for such crimes; 15 months' jail in 1988 and 32 months' jail in 1993.

His modus operandi was to gain the trust of his victims as a friend and entice them to have sex with him by offering them free tuition and toys.

Lim later became the boys' godfather and also moved into their Bukit Merah flat in January 1996, and he also tutored the boys for free, enabling their grades to improve.

A month after befriending the boys, Lim first targeted the younger boy, asking him to have sex with him and offered him toys as a reward.

Although the boy initially refused, he eventually gave in and agree to Lim's offer.

The boy's older brother became the second victim afterwards, and regularly, Lim would commit the sexual acts with the boys, most of which occurred in their home, and would also bring them to shopping for toys and games.

In May 1996, Lim befriended his third and fourth victims, who were also brothers aged 11 and nine.

The older brother was a classmate and friend of the first victim.

It was the free tuition ploy used by Lim that allowed him to victimize the two brothers, and their mother also believed at the first instance that Lim was a decent person.

The older brother became the third victim when he witnessed Lim engaging in a sexual act with his classmate, and Lim similarly asked the 11-year-old boy to also allow him have sex with him, offering him computer games as a reward.

The third victim's nine-year-old brother later became the fourth victim of Lim's sexual crime after he was also lured by Lim's offer of toys and free tuition, as well as being threatened by Lim using a cane; he was the only person whom Lim coered with violence into engaging in sex with him.

In August 1996, a 11-year-old male classmate of both the first and third victim became Lim's fifth and final victim, after he first met Lim at the flat of the first two victims, with Lim convincing him to have sex with him and offer him rewards of new toys and gifts.

After preying on his fifth victim, Lim's third crime spree lasted for another two months until October 1996, when a classmate of the three 11-year-old victims was alerted to Lim's activities through a conversation with one of them.

This prompted him to inform his father, who was horrified and in turn reported the incident to the school principal.

After the teachers probed the victims about these events, a police report was filed against Lim, who was arrested on 6 November 1996 for these latest string of sexual offences.

After his arrest, 28-year-old Lim was charged with 40 counts of having unnatural sex with minors, including molestation, anal intercourse and oral sex.

Lim's case first attracted widespread attention in 1997 when he was on trial for sexually abusing his two godsons and their three friends, all aged between nine and 13, and he was diagnosed with paedophilia, a sexual disorder which dictates a sexual interest in prepubescent boys.

As Lim was assessed to be a chronic paedophile and that his risk of re-offending was high, the veteran judge T. S. Sinnathuray sentenced Lim, then 29 years old, to a total of 40 years' imprisonment, which marked the longest sentence ever imposed in a sexual crime back then.

Under the Penal Code back in 1997, the crime of having anal intercourse with a minor (the most serious charge Lim faced at that point) carried a sentence of either life imprisonment or up to ten years in prison.

On 30 June 1997, Kelvin Lim stood trial at the High Court for ten counts of unnatural sex, all of which Lim pleaded guilty to on the first day of trial.